Orest Kindrachuk

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CanadaCanada  Orest Kindrachuk Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 14, 1950
place of birth Nanton , Alberta , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 79 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1967-1971 Saskatoon Blades
1971-1972 San Diego Gulls
1972-1973 Richmond Robins
1973-1978 Philadelphia Flyers
1978-1981 Pittsburgh Penguins
1981 Washington Capitals

Orest Michael Kindrachuk (born September 14, 1950 in Nanton , Alberta ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player with US citizenship who played 584 games for the Philadelphia Flyers , Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals in the course of his playing career between 1967 and 1981 of the National Hockey League on the position of the center . With the Philadelphia Flyers, Kindrachuk won the Stanley Cup twice in a row in 1974 and 1975 as part of the so-called "Broad Street Bullies" and was the fifth team captain in the franchise history of the Pittsburgh Penguins from 1978 to 1981 .

Career

Kindrachuk spent his junior years between 1967 and 1971 with the Saskatoon Blades in the Western Canada Hockey League . The striker played there for two years before he began to put his junior career on hold and devote himself to his studies at the University of Saskatchewan . Since he openly stated that he had no interest in a professional career and would rather work in the optometry industry, he was not selected by any team in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft . It was not until the 1970/71 season that Kindrachuk returned to the league as a so-called Overage player. He scored 149 points scorer , including 100 assists alone, and was finally signed in July 1971 by the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League as a free agent .

In the 1971/72 season , the 21-year-old finally switched to the professional field. The Flyers used the junior player in his first year with the San Diego Gulls in the Western Hockey League , then for a season with the Richmond Robins in the American Hockey League . With the beginning of the 1973/74 season , Kindrachuk was firmly in Philadelphia's squad, having made his debut in two NHL games the previous year. With the Flyers, he won in his NHL rookie year at the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1974 as part of the so-called "Broad Street Bullies" the Stanley Cup , which the Flyers in the following year successfully defended. In total, the attacker stayed in the Philadelphia squad for five seasons before the Canadian was handed over to the Pittsburgh Penguins in June 1978 together with Ross Lonsberry and Tom Bladon in exchange for a first-round vote in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft .

At the Penguins, Kindrachuk took over the position of team captain immediately after the change , making him the fifth player in franchise history to hold this post. He filled the office for the entire duration of his engagement with Pittsburgh. At the end of the 1980/81 season , in which he had only played 13 games due to problems with the intervertebral discs , the Penguins finally terminated his contract prematurely. He then moved as a free agent to the Washington Capitals , where he declared his career ended at the age of 31 after four missions at the beginning of the season due to persistent injury problems.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1967/68 Saskatoon Blades WCHL 58 24 37 61 44 7th 1 3 4th 20th
1968/69 Saskatoon Blades WCHL 41 21st 25th 46 33 4th 1 1 2 0
1969/70 Saskatoon Blades WCHL 4th 3 4th 7th 5 5 2 4th 6th 25th
1970/71 Saskatoon Blades WCHL 61 49 100 149 103 5 2 4th 6th 25th
1971/72 San Diego Gulls WHL 61 18th 36 54 77 4th 1 1 2 0
1972/73 Richmond Robins AHL 72 35 51 86 133 3 0 1 1 10
1972/73 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1973/74 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 71 11 30th 41 85 17th 5 4th 9 17th
1974/75 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 60 10 21st 31 72 14th 0 2 2 12
1975/76 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 76 26th 49 75 101 16 4th 7th 11 4th
1976/77 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 78 15th 36 51 79 10 2 1 3 0
1977/78 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 73 17th 45 62 128 12 5 5 10 13
1978/79 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 79 18th 42 60 84 7th 4th 1 5 7th
1979/80 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 52 17th 29 46 63 - - - - -
1980/81 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 13 3 9 12 34 - - - - -
1981/82 Washington Capitals NHL 4th 1 0 1 2 - - - - -
WCHL overall 164 97 166 263 185 21st 6th 12 18th 70
NHL overall 508 118 261 379 648 76 20th 20th 40 53

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joe Pelletier: Philadelphia Flyers Legends: Orest Kindrachuk. greatesthockeylegends.com, June 2006, accessed December 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kindrachuk, Orestes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kindrachuk, Orest Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Nanton , Alberta